It's hard to believe, but I've been writing this blog for a year now. The first post was published on Saturday, May 20, 2006. Since then I've published 82 articles and received 101 reader comments. As near as I can tell, on average, about 15 people a day stop by. Some days, usually after an article has been republished in ...   more »

To make it a little easier to remember and share Sag Hampton's web address with friends and acquaintances we've added saghampton.com and www.saghampton.com to our original address, saghampton.eponym.com. You can now get here using any one of those addresses. They'll all work just fine.   more »

Blogs are interactive media. TV is the polar opposite: a passive medium. Even traditional websites are passive media. Here's the difference. Passive media are one-way conversations. There's a creator and a consumer. The creator creates, the consumer consumes what has been created. If you're having trouble following this, substitute either the word "reads"  or "watches" for the word "consumes" in ...   more »

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Sag Hampton is an idiosyncratic, sometimes irreverent, sometimes irrelevant view of the goings on in Sag Harbor, NY and the surrounding area. Sag Harbor is one of the communities that comprise the part of eastern Long Island commonly referred to as the Hamptons. Within recent memory (mine), Sag Harbor was known as the "un-Hampton"; populated mainly by working stiffs, writers, ...   more »

I'm a pretty typical Long Islander, though not a native of the East End. I've actually only lived on the mainland of the  United States for six of my 56 years. Born in the Bronx (mainland), I moved to Levittown (island) at the age of five. At 20, I moved to Manhattan (island) for five years, and spent one ...   more »